• by Colin Kirkland , August 18, 2025

Faced with lawsuits accusing the platform of child-safety issues and loopholes for child predators, Roblox is expanding its policies surrounding romantic and sexual content to better protect its hundreds of millions of young users. 

Roblox says it is applying its policy prohibiting romantic and sexual content for younger users to content and behavior that also “implies” sexual activity, while also promising to restrict “all unrated experiences (previously restricted to users 13 or older) to the developer and the people actively working on the experience.”

To ensure that these experiences are available to the majority of Roblox users, the company says developers must first complete a “Maturity & Compliance Questionnaire" in order to receive a content maturity label.

Since becoming one of the leading gaming environments for children and teens in the world, Roblox has been at the center of various lawsuits and reports regarding child safety.

In November, the platform was deemed “an X-rated pedophile hellscape” by Bloomberg, which spoke with Roblox safety moderators who admitted to being overwhelmed with child-safety reports. 

Most recently, the Attorney General of Louisiana, Liz Murrill, filed a lawsuit against Roblox, accusing the platform -- which she called the “perfect place for pedophiles” -- of failing to implement basic safety controls.

Only in November of last year -- 18 years since its original launch -- did Roblox begin implementing content ratings and barring users under the age of 13 from chatting with other users outside of the platform. 

In her lawsuit, Murrill also points to adults easily posing as children on Roblox to prey on underage users in sexually explicit game experiences, including “Escape to Epstein Island,” “Diddy Party,” and “Public Bathroom Simulator Vibe.”

Now, Roblox says it is rolling out “new technology to detect violative scenes” like these.

“For example, experiences that have a drawing feature may be compliant, but this technology can detect violative creations made by users in that experience, like drawings showing inappropriate content,” the company explains. “If this feature detects a server with a high volume of violative user behavior, the system will automatically take that server down. Our team will then work with the developer to see if adjustments can be made to prevent that behavior in the future.”

Roblox is also restricting “Social Hangouts” -- in-game chatrooms that have historically contained inappropriate user behavior -- depicting private spaces “such as bedrooms and bathrooms” to users who are ID-verified and 17 or older.